Ahoy, mateys, and welcome to the GAMEBUOY.ORG video game podcast – your twice monthly port of call for gaming news and views that maybe aren’t on your radar, but most definitely should be! On this episode, recorded Sunday, November 20, 2016, First Mate Slagkick and Captain Spike discuss the rise and fall of the Roller Coaster Tycoon genre and the recent revival of the theme park simulation genre.

This week, First Mate Slagkick and Captain Spike discuss the theme park simulation genre with a focus on the Roller Coaster Tycoon franchise, which started from one man’s newfound love of roller coasters and grew into a cult hit, but later derailed as Atari struggled to find the right creative talent to develop further titles. The original games helped to spawn a subgenre of sim games that eventually gave rise to the new heirs to the RCT throne: Planet Coaster and Parkitect.